FORT BRAGG, N.C. — President Donald Trump’s rally on Friday followed a familiar plan: He entered to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” promoted GOP candidates, bashed his predecessor and implored the audience to vote Republican in the midterm elections. The speech ended to the thump of the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.”
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